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A Howard University law professor petitioned a United Nations (U.N.) tribunal to pay every black American $5 million in reparations — a proposal that would not need taxpayer approval. On Friday, Justin Hansford, a leading scholar in critical race theory, addressed the U.N. tribunal in New York City during the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, the Daily Mail reported. The forum will last four days, ending on June 2. David Comissiong, representing Barbados, proposed it. Hansford was joined by colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University in his plea that the United States government atone for...

TORONTO -- Nordstrom Inc. announced Thursday it is closing all of its Canadian stores and cutting 2,500 jobs as it winds down operations in the country. The Seattle-based retailer has six Nordstrom and seven Nordstrom Rack stores in Canada, which will be shuttered by late June.

A wealthy Democratic donor club plotting the future of the liberal movement hopes to be fighting for reparations by 2022, according to a document obtained by the Washington Free Beacon from the Democracy Alliance's spring conference this week in Atlanta. The desire was stated in the invitation for a Monday reception during the annual spring gathering, which was attended by top Democratic Party officials such as DNC chairman Tom Perez, former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, and Reps. Raul Grijalva (Ariz.) and Mark Pocan (Wis.). The reception, "Way to Win: 2022 Victory Party," was presented as a look forward at what's...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department will fast track the sending of $29 million to South Carolina to help families of victims of the mass murder of nine church goers at a historic black church in Charleston, a Justice Department spokesman said on Friday.

Greece has demanded nearly €279bn in reparations from Germany, more than the value of its current bail-out, as the cash-strapped country continues to pursue compensation for crimes carried out by the Third Reich. A parliamentary committee established by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras put an official number on the claim, which includes the cost of a forced Nazi loan made by the Bank of Greece and the return of archaeological treasures. Greece suffered a brutal occupation at the hands of the Third Reich in 1941, with over 40,000 people starving to death in Athens alone. SNIP--- Berlin moved to quickly to...

Greece's justice minister said on Wednesday he was ready to implement a High Court ruling allowing Athens to seize German state-owned property to compensate victims of a Nazi massacre in a small Greek village. Nikos Paraskevopoulos' comments come against a backdrop of rising tensions between Athens and Berlin as Greece's new leftist government struggles to persuade its European Union partners to renegotiate a 240 billion euro bailout package. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday accused successive German governments of using legal tricks to avoid paying reparations for the brutal Nazi occupation of Greece and said he would support efforts to...

Obama wrote: 10) Reparations -- Given the perceived failures of the traditional civil rights agenda in bringing about racial equality in the US, a number of black commentators argue that a program of reparations is the only legitimate means of making up for threehundred plus years of slavery. More recently, some white commentators have also supported a variant of the reparations concept -- for example, the government financing a Community Reinvestment funds that would be controlled by the black community and render affirmative action obsolete. Do such proposals have any realistic chance of working their way through the political system?...

<p>Hundreds of survivors of Hurricane Katrina lined up Thursday outside the Reliant Center in Houston in hopes of getting $2,000 government debit cards, but there's confusion about who can get the cards and when.</p>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!!! August 20, 2004 Contact: Ermias Alemayehu (323) 782-1980 / (213) 804-1872 IS ALAN KEYES MAKING SENSE? Rev. Peterson: ‘Reparations’ Is A Liberal Idea; Bad For Blacks Los Angeles- Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and President of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, and leader of the “Stop Reparations Now” movement has come out against Illinois Senate Republican candidate Alan Keyes’ idea of a form of reparations. Keyes supports exempting American descendants of African slaves from paying federal taxes. Rev. Peterson said, “ I know Alan Keyes, he’s a good man, but he is wrong on...

The Reverend Al Sharpton emphasized his support of slavery reperations and said he would ask the other Democratic Presidential hopefuls for their position on the matter, ABCNEWS.com reports.Sharpton did not deny that he would use whatever delegates he wins in the primaries to force the Democratic National Committee into granting him a primetime speaking slot during the party convention.Sharptons candidacy worries some Democrats who fear that his rabble rousing politics could distract other candidates who are trying to court black voters.

For some time I have refused to give the issue of reparations any serious thought, however, inundated by constant and persistent articles and comments on the subject, - I thought now may be a good time to weigh in my opinion. If reparations to African Americans is defined as the payment in cash by the United States government to the descendants of Africans for 300 years of enslavement and all that is associated with that condition, - then, reparations takes on the equivalent of waiting for Santa Claus. For those who want to compare African American reparations with the...

<p>With a landmark state study on slave-era insurance policies about to be released, Gov. Gray Davis addressed the issue of possible reparations to California minorities yesterday, saying, "Clearly, we want to right any wrongs and do justice to people who were taken advantage of."</p>

Question.....I heard someone the other day say that some slaves that were freed WERE given 40 acres and a mule. IF that is TRUE..... My question......if reperations are supposingly owed ....Are they going to go back and research to see what slaves were ALREADY paid and trace them to todays ancestors?? We wouldn't want to pay someone who's family was already paid ....right?

SHAKEDOWN by Russell Madden   In the midst of Black History Month, in which we (rightly) celebrate the achievements of Black Americans, an issue that sadly serves to undercut the accomplishments of these citizens received renewed publicity. The call for present-day Americans to "compensate" all Blacks for what their slave ancestors suffered in the South clawed its way into the national headlines. Especially on many of our college campuses, the clamor for "reparations" reached frenzied heights.Liberal-turned-conservative David Horowitz recently tried to inject a bit of balance into this one-sided discussion. Offering a list of "10 Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks are...